F1. Why don’t you distribute .deb/.rpm packages?

The source code is necessary for getting CASINO to work where it’s most useful, i.e., on high-performance clusters. It’s impractical to generate binaries for each machine we know of, particularly given that we presently don’t have access to most of the supported architectures.

However .deb and .rpm packages for popular Linux distributions are a planned feature, which we will get to once we enable system-wide installations (see A6 above).